1923 – February 3, 2000) was an American lawyer, politician, and a U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate political scandal. He suspended his private practice in 1969 to accept the post of Deputy Attorney General of the United States. This gave him responsibilities relating to the governm...
That is key. The rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department mandate the FBI must verify information before submitting it to the court in applying for surveillance warrants. Even though it could not prove the Steele allegations and had every reason to know they ...
Whilst Google / Microsoft / Adobe / Facebook might have sufficient “Market Inertia” to survive consumer blowback from the US and sufficiently large legal depts to fight the excesses of the Feds the same is not true for smaller organisations. But the US is not the major market in the world...
During this time the responsibilities of the FBI escalated incredibly, and issues such as subversion, sabotage, and espionage ended up becoming major and serious concerns. It was at this time as well that the FBI developed a network of informational sources, and with leads developed by these ...